At the Sydney Jewish Museum, in Darlinghurst, there is a handmade cookbook that is testament to how memories of beloved family dishes can sustain the spirit, if not the body. Located among other Holocaust artefacts in the concentration camps section of the museum, the The Ravensbrück Cookbook is no more than 15 cm x 10 cm; you could almost pass it over. Beset by constant thoughts of food in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, a starving Edith Peer and friends jotted down recipes on stolen paper. The book was featured in a 2015 French documentary film, Imaginary Feasts.
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